Summary
Personal Information
Crime
Voyage
Transportation
Felix Myers was transported on the Neptune, departing 4th Oct 1837 and arriving 18th Jan 1838 with 359 passengers.
NeptuneReferences
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 90, Class and Piece Number HO11/11, Page Number 167 (85) https://linctas.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/all/search/results archives.tas.gov.au/ImageViewer/image_viewer.htm |
| Source Description | This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Pro |
| Original Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
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Convict Notes
Prussian born, of the Jewish faith, he was at times a music teacher a surveyor & a German teacher. 1837 He was found guilty of stealing spoons from his mistresses abode and sentenced at a court session in Leicester, to seven years transportation. He had an accomplice, a Joseph Brant. Myers was 27 and Brant was 21. The Leicester Chronicle, described Myers as a German Jew, and reported a ‘pathetic appeal’ Felix Myers made to the jury, in which he described himself as ‘an unfortunate foreigner’. He was sentenced in 1838, sub-overseer Bagdad party, to 14 days on the treadwheel for overstaying his pass & misrepresenting himself to be free. Despite this, his behaviour was mostly good and he was assigned as a sub-overseer on various road gangs works in the Southern Midlands of VDL. In 1840 he married Mary Hickson (Hixon?)10 years his junior in Hobart, they had two children & moved to Launceston. Conditional pardon #436, granted 31st May 1843 Free Certificate #592, 1844